After the installation, The first thing I do is to remove those icons because first, I don’t use it and second, I like my desktop clean.
Here’s how you can remove the “Online Help” and “openSUSE” icon on Gnome desktop:
As root, change directory to ‘/usr/share/dist/desktop-files/’ then delete or move this files:
- GnomeOnlineHelp.desktop
- SuSE.desktop
Remove
rawswift:/ # cd /usr/share/dist/desktop-files/ rawswift:/usr/share/dist/desktop-files # rm *
Move
rawswift:/ # cd /usr/share/dist/desktop-files/ rawswift:/usr/share/dist/desktop-files # mv * /to/backup/folder/.
After you remove or move it, notice that the two icons will automatically disappear on the desktop (must be a daemon, run by Nautilus Greeter Application, ‘ggreeter’).
I hope this helps!
Update!
I just found out about this! While I was removing applications on session startup, I’ve noticed an entry named ‘SUSE’ that run an application called ‘ggreeter’. I’m not really sure if removing it will disable those icons, anyway I continue on and disable that entry. The name just gave me a hint and so far I haven’t encountered any problem. Here’s how to disable it:
- Open the ‘Control Center‘
- Click ‘Sessions‘ under ‘System‘ category
- On ‘Startup Programs‘, uncheck ‘SUSE‘
- Then click ‘Close‘ button
What ‘SUSE’ does is run ‘ggreeter –once’ on startup, must be a daemon.
